"I can’t believe that we’re even having this discussion, if you can understand when I say that to you humbly. To be talking in America in 2016 about Mao is a good idea, and a socialist is running for president and that’s OK, and we’re going to go back to these crazy tax rates where we’re going to completely disempower the innovators in our country because the new technocratic class wants to keep their position and they want to keep anybody else from coming in the game…I mean, it’s just crazy to me."

"When I watch some of the clips that you guys have been been putting up at some of these protests, I have no respect for what these people are doing. They’re shutting down free speech…If they have that level of vitriol for let’s say Donald Trump as a candidate, because they feel it’s antithetical to what they believe in, where is the five times great condemnation for those societies that are treating their people far worse than just ideas and words?"

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Billy Corgan's ever-evolving Smashing Pumpkins just released their ninth studio album, 'Oceania.' While Corgan's baldhead and goth-tinged look haven't changed much, the band behind him has—aside from Corgan, no other member of the original lineup remains. Now the band features a group of young hired guns, including 22-year-old drummer Mike Byrne, who was found via open auditions for the band. So we figured it was the perfect time to look back on the Pumpkins' evolution under the direction of its fearless leader, Billy Corgan.
(Above, Corgan performs a headstand while wearing a dress live on stage in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1992) more »

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Smashing Pumpkins Soak It In

Billy Corgan lives the 'Siamese Dream' in 1993 with then band members James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky and Jimmy Chamberlin. more »

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Young Billy

A young Billy Corgan shreds it out in a weird jacket. Ah, the '90s. more »

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